*Victory To The French Strikers In Their Defense Of The Right To Retire Before The Grave-The Struggle For Power Is Posed

Click on the headline to link to a  National Public Radio report on the situation in France (as of October 19, 2010) as the strikers take to the streets again, and close down public faculties. 

Markin comment:

Earlier in the day I wrote a short commentary concerning a three-point program for home foreclosure relief for the working class in America. There I noted that one, as least this one, me, expected that the social tinder that has been just below the surface of American society for the past several years would have exploded by now, and that we would have the capitalists on the run, or at least give them a first scare. I also note in that commentary that if the capitalists couldn’t see their way clear to doing the right thing, then they should move on over and keep out of our way. I further noted that that last point would take hard-bitten communists to implement though. The French working class, in their current defensive struggles to save their pension system and uphold their right to retire before they die, show the way forward for the American working class. Although there too hard-bitten communists are needed to finish the deal. Forward. Victory to the strikers!